Yahoo has announced in a statement on its China site, that it will increase the storage limit of its free e-mail service tenfold in China, even though it does not appear that users elsewhere will see the same benefit anytime soon.

Sohu.com Inc reported double-digit growth in both revenues and profits in its second quarter thanks mainly to its online advertising business, but the firm's short messaging service (SMS) continued to decline.

French electronics maker Thomson, said it will buy out most of the stake held by the world's top cellphone maker, Nokia, in a joint venture making set-top TV boxes for the China market.

Ericsson has been chosen by China Mobile Communications Corporation (China Mobile) to provide equipment for its CMNet Phase Two IP backbone networks expansion in all 31 Chinese provinces and autonomous regions.

Shanda Interactive Entertainment Limited, the operator of online games in China, announced today that it has signed an agreement to purchase for cash a minority stake in Shanghai Haofang Online Information Technology Co., Ltd., or Haofang, a privately-owned company that develops and operates the largest network PC game platform in China.

CSG Systems, a global provider of customer care and billing solutions, today announced that China's largest telecommunications service provider China Telecom, has selected the billing solution part of CSG's Kenan FX framework to support convergent telecommunications services for Sichuan Telecom.

Sina Corp yesterday posted a net revenue of US$49.2 million for the second quarter of the year ending on June 30.

Ericsson has been awarded a contract by Beijing Communication Corporation, a subsidiary of China Netcom Corporation (CNC), to provide In-Building Solutions (IBS) for the new National Grand Theatre in China.

It is being reported that Cisco Systems has dropped its copyright lawsuit against Huawei Technologies, which it filed last year.

Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates, Inc. announced today that it has shipped single wafer VIISta 80HP high current and VIISta 810EHP medium current ion implanters to a 300mm fab in China.

AsiaInfo Holdings, Inc., a provider of software, solutions and services to telecom operators and enterprises in China, today announced that it has signed a contract with Air China to provide a Business Intelligence (BI) solution to its corporate offices in China.

Following a recent announcement by Sina.com that they would be dropping pop-up advertisements, another Chinese portal website, Sohu.com, said yesterday that it won't accept pop-up advertising business on its homepage from this month.

China Network Communications Group Corp (China Netcom) has filed its listing application documents for a US$1.5 billion initial public offering (IPO) in Hong Kong and New York, the domestic media said yesterday.

Chinese wireless Internet service provider Tom Online Inc maintained a high growth in both revenues and profits in the second quarter, beating the market's worries about slow growth in wireless value-added services.

Acer Inc, the world's fifth-largest personal computer vendor, said yesterday that it had seen an impact on its laptop sales in China due to Beijing's measures to slow down its runaway economy that began earlier this year.